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The campaign and the russians. and the crafts of the statement on air force one where he said this is all about adoptions. the story only changed when the e-mails came out in which it was shown in the e-mails that trump junior knew in advance that he provided dirt on hillary clinton. he wrote in that response "i love it." you have the two potential tracks there. two, what does the follow up appear to mean. >> real quickly, you can go ahead, michael. >> that which i found most important in jims r...

Initial -- first of all, they said there were no meetings with russians that we learned, that there were several meetings with russians including one where the russians were willing to offer this information and trumps side was willing to take the meeting on that promise. but, two, after that meeting was revealed the initial explanation in which president trump himself was involved in gave a misleading account about what that meeting was all about saying it was about russian adoptions when e-mai...

Viewed as having lied to federal law enforcement. im not sure thats the case. its another potentially bad headline if its true, but im not necessarily sure its any legal jeopardy. >> laura: andy, the veselnitskaya woman was there to push the magnitsky act. she was trying to get him to push congress on that magnitsky act because of russian adoptions. the whole thing, it has nothing to do with hillary. big scam, big play. sounds like they were played in that meeting. jared was bored. he got up. ma...

Law enforcement. im not sure thats the case. its another potentially bad headline if its true, but im not necessarily sure its any legal jeopardy. >> laura: andy, the veselnitskaya woman was there to push the magnitsky act. she was trying to get him to push congress on that magnitsky act because of russian adoptions. the whole thing, it has nothing to do with hillary. big scam, big play. sounds like they were played in that meeting. jared was bored. he got up. manafort walked out. it was a big n...

Political stuff. >> did you know that -- >> no, i didnt know anything about it. >> so just keeps on saying he didnt know. then, in testimony before the senate judiciary committee in september of 2017, don jr., back to the son -- claimed that his father, quote, wouldnt have wasted his time with it. i in every spoke to my father about it. okay. so thats the history of the trumps continually denying they knew about the meeting. joining me now former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district...

The interview. he tweeted this. it is a crime to lie to congress whether under oath or not. i will add that it is a crime that comes up to five years of prison time. now, we should make clear that after this cohens story popped last night, donald trump jr. put out a statement, they stay by of the credibility and the accuracy information that they provided to congress. here are a couple of things to know. donald trump jr. have made false claims about this trump tower meeting. he initially said he...

That have taken place with the clintons. i think youre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> two days later the meeting happened. it involved donald trump jr., then campaign chair paul manafort and son-in-law jared kushner met with a russian lawyer, a former russian spy and others. the public didnt find out about it until a year later after the election. one year ago, july 2017, don junior downplayed the significance of that meeting in a statement to "the new york time...

Emin agalarov in the setup to this meeting. we wanted to find out was this don junior talking to his father about the meeting. there would be a simple way to find out, we could subpoena the records, and the majority wasnt even willing to subpoena the phone records. >> beforehand, when it was still being set up, with their former friend and someone they had dealt with during the miss universe pageant in moscow. >> exactly. it was part of a pattern, andrea, where hope hicks wouldnt talk about, for...

Private meeting that he had. he had a discussion and said what did you discuss. he said we discussed adoptions. sit now, you havent asked -- i listened very closely. the last person to ask questions but you refuse to say if relaxing sanctions was part of the meeting that the president had. and so i find it hard to believe that we are a nation that is

Impulsiveness on that. they had days now to know this question was coming and why does the state department have the right answer and how do you think that happens? >> they have different bosses. thats why. >> has to say, mr. president, i cannot go out there and endorse this incredibly stupid idea. >> shes afraid to do that. michael mcfaul is a critic of donald trump and shes afraid to go out and say anything nice about him. anything that would protect him. because the president might freak out....